Car-fender



(No Model.) 2 Sheets- Sheet 1 P. L. BENNER.

OAR FENDER.

Patented May 18, 1897.

INVENTOR WITNESSES (Nb Modem 2 sheetssheen 2.

P. L. BENNER. GAR FENDER.

N0. 582,844. PatentedMay 18, 1897.

WITNESSES: IN VENTOR www 'gw @WW WW UNITED STATES PATENT GEEICE.g

PETER L. BENNER, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

CAR-FENDER.

SPECIFICATIGN forming' part of Letters Patent No. 582,844, dated May 18, 1897.

Application filed November 21, 1895. Serial No.' 569,696. (No model.)

To all whom, t 17o/Ly concern:

Be it known that I, PETER L. BENNER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and u seful Improve meut in Fenders for Street- Railway Cars, of which the followingis a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a side View of a street-car having my improved fender connected a't cach end of the car-truck. Fig. 2 is a top view of the fender and so much of the car-truck as will show a connection. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section of Fig. 2, taken on the dotted line X Y. Fig. 4 is a back view of the fender. Figs. 5, 6, 7, 9, and 10 are views of the pivoted and tilting cover. Fig. 8 is a cross-section of Fig. 2, taken on the dotted line O K of Fig. 2.

Similar numerals refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

The object of my invention is a car-fender that may be connected to the car-truck and placed under the platform, or, if desired, connected to the body of the car and in front of the bumper.

The :invention consists in a fender made pointed at the forward part, hung and pivoted in hangers connected to the car truck or body, and having a divided and pivoted cover so arranged as to cast an object picked up into the center of the fender.

In the practice of my invention by applying the same to a street-car it is desirable to make the fender as light in weight as is consistent with strength. Therefore I prefer to cast the frame in iron and make the iron m alleable by the well-known process.

The frame is represented by the numeral 2 and is shown in Figs. 2, 3, 4, and 8. The shape is that of a locomotive-pilot. This frame at the rear is constructed with two pedestals 3 and at the front with two pedestals 4. Around the point and along the sides the frame is made half-round, as shown in Figs. 4 and 8, and to the inner sides of the frame are xed studs 5. By means of these studs and the hangers 6 the fender is pivoted and hung to the cross-bar 7, which forms a part of the car-truck.

S is a shoe fixed under the forward point of the fender.

Around the point and on the outer sides of the frame 2 I fix a rubber air-cushion 9.

The top of the fender is covered by pivoted shutters 10, which shutters are made of sheet-iron and fixed to a bar 12. Said bar is journaled at 18 at each end. The shutters are made of a shape shown in Figs. 4, 5, 7, 9, and 10. At the corners 14 the shutters are weighted.

Between the fender and end of the cartruck I place a wire or rope screen 15. (See Figs. 1, 2, and This screen is fixed to the end of the car-truck.

To the most forward ends of the `car-body, known as the bumper, I fix a rubber aircushion 16. (See Fig. 1.)

The operation of my invention is apparent from the above description of the construction when taken in connection with the draw- 1n gs.

The fender, if placed as shown in Fig. 1 Y

and connected to the car-truck, will not receive any seesaw motion from the body of the car, and the fender may be carried close to the ground. When an object is struck by the bumper, the air-cushion will break the impact of the blow, and should the object be thrown down between the car-tracks the pointv of the fender when it strikes the object will be depressed, so as to cause the shoe 8 to slide on the ground, and if the object is directly in the front and middle of the tracks the fender will scoop it up and throw it on the top of the fender and the pivoted shutters will close instantly, as shown by `the dotted lines of Fig. 4. This prevents the object from rolling off. If the object strikes the side of the fender, the air-cushion will break the im- 'pact of the blow, and the fender being taper Having as above fully described my innais, are supported and Work in boxes, formed Vention, what I claim as new, and desire to in ldie fender-frame, substantially as shown secure by Letters Patent, isand described.

In a street-car fender, lhe Combination of PE'R L. BEUNER. 5 a pivoted car-fender, and a divided cover, fitnessesz each part of the @over being` pivoted 0n trun- JOHN SHINN,

nious, at each end, which trunnions, or jour- FRANK H. BENNER. 

